House update/Old English Company homeware review

The last few months have flown by (hence the lack of blog posts). Since my last post we’ve been busy decorating, unpacking and making way too many trips to IKEA/Homesense/Next in search of lovely homeware in the mission to make our house a home. 

I’m very pleased with how the house is coming together (it seems all those pre-homeowner months of trawling through Pinterest for inspiration paid off). If you fancy having a nosey I’ve shared a few snippets of the house/homeware over on my Instagram.

Speaking of homeware the lovely people at Old English Company kindly got in touch and asked if I would be interested in picking out some of their products to try. After stumbling across lots of lovely things on their website, I of course said yes. 

The first items I picked out were the everything in pyjamas enamel mug* and the go get ‘em tiger enamel mug, which will be used on walks, picnics and for drinking tea in the garden now the weather is finally starting to get warmer. In our house we get through tea towels like there's no tommorow (due to my boyfriends love of cooking and my constant tidying) so I also picked out a herbs and spices tea towel*. 

The final couple of items were picked out by my boyfriend. The first item that he picked out was the butcher cuts pig board*, which we've used for serving our Sunday roast but would also be good to use for serving tapas or cheeses. He also picked out the matching butcher cuts tea towel*, like I said we can never have enough tea towels!

I'm very impressed with the quality of all the products that I picked out, both the enamel mugs and the board have handwashed really well (with no sign of the print coming off anytime soon). The tea towels are functional and look great hanging in the kitchen, I'd definitely recommend.

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*This product was very kindly sent to me for review consideration. This is not a sponsored post and all opinions are my own. You can read my full disclaimer policy here.

Life: We bought a house!

I’ve been away from the blogging world for a short while, and for a very good reason... earlier this month me and my boyfriend moved into our first home together!

After months & months of saving up our deposit, viewing the house, putting in an offer and waiting for our offer to be accepted came months of waiting for solicitors to negotiate terms, paperwork & ageee a completion date. 

I’ve always heard people talk about how stressful buying a house can be, but I truly underestimated JUST how stressful it would be. I was a bit of a nightmare during the last couple of months, so I want to say a big thank you to my family & boyfriend for putting up with me. 

Now we’re a couple of weeks into life in our new home together, living amongst a sea of boxes still to be unpacked but I couldn’t be happier. 

Until next time.

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Life: A Little Life Update

Happy May! Yes I'm going to be say that old cliche line.. can you believe how fast this year is going?!

I've been so busy lately and unfortunately my little blog is bearing the worst of it. Seriously trying to maintain a blog whilst working full time is bloomin' hard (hats off to the bloggers who work and blog full time). It's Thursday evening now and I've found a little bit of time to sit down and write a little life update post.

This year I've really started to enjoy going walking. I love the peace, scenery and it really does make me feel better. I wrote a post in January about my Weekend Walks. If you fancy reading it looking at pretty scenery photos you can find it here.

Life: 2016 In Photos (#3)

Since my last life update post I've started my new job, which I'm really enjoying! Although I won't lie I do miss my ex work colleagues a little bit. 

I also attended the fabulous #BonPrixontherocks event at the Malmaison in Leeds, which was a great opportunity to meet lots of lovely bloggers and take part in a cocktail masterclass too. My full post on the event can be found here if you fancy reading more. 

I recently celebrated my 22nd Birthday (which I have blogged about here), discovered the joy that is mulled wine, enjoyed a winter walk in Whitby and done the obligitary Christmas market visit.

Life: 2016 In Photos (#2)

I shared part one of my 2016 in pitcures series back in May so part two is long overdue (better late than never though, right?)

Since my last post I took my very first European city break with my boyfriend when we headed to Paris in early August. I'd never been to Paris (or France) before so I was so excited to explore - I wrote a blog post all about my trip which you can read here (if you'd like).

Life: 2016 In Photo's (#1)

Hi lovelies, I hope you're all well?

Some of you might have noticed that my blog posts have been less frequent over the last few months (if you haven't noticed then I guess I got away with it, lol). 

I struggle to find the time to blog sometimes, I work full-time during the week and at weekends sometimes I don't always want to be sat at my laptop writing and editing, I want to enjoy some time away from the Internet too. Saying that my blog isn't going to disappear any time soon, I'm just going to relax my posting and post as and when I can. 

As we're nearly halfway through 2016 (omg?!)I thought it would be the perfect time to share a little life update in the form of my 2016 photo diary so far.